What partitioning do you have on your hard drive? And what folder structure?

Bullshit.

Holy shit how did this usenet post from 1997 get here?

Fucking poorfags, get off my 'net.

Then show me an example of a HDD/SSD configuration with a working filesystem but no partition table. It does work for removable drives such as floppies, "superfloppies", USB sticks, memory cards etc. but not for fixed drives.

No multibooters at all? I knew that $CURRENTYEAR /g/tards are all like "one disk = one partition = one OS", but I expected a little better from Holla Forums.

Nvram likes to fill up and purging it can be a nightmare. Fedora likes to dump a hundred platform keys into it for instance

One OS per machine is all I need. Debian handles the freedoms on my X200/X200T, Windows handles the dirty stuff on my heavier laptop.

Segregating /var and /tmp makes sense to reduce fragmentation since they have frequent writes.

Please elaborate on what would make you think that dividing a hard disk into multiple partitions made sense in the 1990s but not anymore thereafter (because that's what you appear to believe, inferring from your post).

People think that 'one partition = one OS'? Shit.

A sane minimum is two partitions, one for the OS and one for data. Having the OS on a big partition which stretches all over the disk will make OS files become dispersed all over the disk as files are deleted and copied in updates etc. Also it makes things more difficult if the OS needs to be wiped and reinstalled (with data on a separate partition you can reinstall the OS with the data untouched). Additional partition might be involved, such as UEFI partition, recovery partition etc. Also since Vista Windows will make a separate 100MB BOOTMGR partition if you install it on a disk which doesn't have any active primary partitions. For Linux you need a swap partition, should at least separate / and /home (as per the above - separate partitions for OS and data), it might also make sense to have separate partitions for /boot, /var, /tmp (those two are important on servers, so logs couldn't possibly fill up / and bring the system down), some even make /usr separate. If multibooting different OSes there are many possibilities depending on the particular setup (OSes, bootloaders, etc.). One might also make multiple partitions for data, though that is rarely needed (and can sometimes backfire if one volume happens to fil up and then you need to put things where they don't really belong). Generally partitioning is very useful, those who claim otherwise obviously don't know much about it and are trying to hide their lack of knowledge by trying to ridicule it and making fallacious and uninformed statements.